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War-related infected tibial nonunion with bone and soft-tissue loss treated with bone transport using the Ilizarov method |
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| Authors: | Marko Bumbaširević Slavko Tomić Aleksandar Lešić Ivan Milošević Henry Dushan E. Atkinson |
| Affiliation: | (1) Institute for Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Clinical Centre for Serbia, Višegradska 26, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia;(2) Special Hospital for Orthopaedic Surgery “Banjica”, Mihajla Avramovica 28, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia;(3) Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, North Middlesex University Hospital, Sterling Way, London, N18 1QX, UK;(4) 9 Sutcliffe Close, London, NW11 6NT, UK; |
| Abstract: | Patients and methodsThis single centre retrospective study reviews the outcomes of 30 war-injured patients with established infected tibial nonunion after sustaining grade IIIB open fractures. Patients were treated by radical bony and soft-tissue resection and bone transport using the Ilizarov bifocal technique, without the use of systemic antibiotics or bone grafting. |
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